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TIL About the African Dodger Game. In the 1920s people would throw baseballs at black people's heads at carnivals, causing great injuries and even death

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bJpE TIL In 2013 A Brazilian Woman Laced Her Vagina With Poison So That Oral Sex Would Kill Her Husband.
aw44N TIL Great white sharks do not survive in captivity due to depression and refusing to be fed by humans, leading them to die of starvation. There are currently many theories on why this is. The current record for a Great White in captivity is only 44 days.
ednn TIL Mt. St Helens erupted while the Grateful Dead were performing ‘Fire on the Mountain’ in Portland, OR on June 12, 1980.
oB8rY TIL about the IBM's System/23 Datamaster, designed to be set-up and operated by first-time computer users, and the predecessor to the PC. This desktop computer weighed 95 lbs, had 256 kB of memory, a text-only display, and cost around $9,000 (equivalent to $25,310 in 2019).
KdrR TIL that the process of getting torn apart by a black hole is called Spaghettification